Is America Really the Most Powerful Nation on Earth?

Is America really the most powerful nation on earth?

That seems to be the motto we are living under, that America is the most powerful nation on earth.

We have more aircraft carriers than anyone else…..except
aircraft carriers can't go into the desert.

Sure, F-16s can cover desert ground pretty fast. But any
military expert at West Point will tell you that air power alone
can't do the job, which is why we have ground forces in Iraq (who
are being killed one at a time at the terrorist's self-proscribed
pace). In Vietnam we had exceedingly massive air superiority over
the Vietnamese (who had no air force to speak of at all), and the
United States lost the war in Vietnam (and the Vietnamese peasants managed to shoot down with SAM missiles a shit load of American fighter planes).

We have more nuclear warheads than anyone else….except we can't use any of them because even a nation with fewer nuclear warheads can send American into a tailspin with one or two well placed hits in the Northeast corridor between New York and Washington, D.C.

We are spending billions on a missile defense shield
that is better than anyone else….except having more nuclear warheads isn't that much of an advantage anymore when terrorists can bring a suitcase dirty bomb into a major city, such as New York, bring it in the trunk of a car. A one kiloton, hundred pound dirty bomb in the trunk of a car can put Manhattan Island out of business for the next thousand years, thanks to radiation.

We have multi-warhead Hydrogen bomb missiles, except we don't have targets for them. We can't fire them at cities. Even if we fired a few hydrogen bombs into the desert of Iraq, the resultant nuclear winter that begins in the Iraq desert would eventually drift over into America to kill millions of citizens via cancer and what not.
Besides, a hydrogen bomb in the oil filled desert would shut off oil
supplies, and many American would rather have cancer than do without their SUVs. Hydrogen bomb nuclear warheads are becoming obsolete as efficient weapon's systems (biochemical warfare is more efficient, and costs less to maintain and to use…and anyone can get hold ofbiochemical weapons).

Having more hydrogen bombs isn't so much of an advantage anymore, and we don't know how many hydrogen bombs Russia has pointed at us…cause the Cold War mentality ain't over yet, not by a long shot.

Both India and Pakistan have missile systems that are better at
delivery of nuclear payloads than anyone wants to discuss in the
newspapers. Israel and South Africa are loaded to the gills with
nuclear deterrents. Hydrogen bombs are those things that really give no one on the planet a distinct advantage. Everyone dies eventually when hydrogen bombs start going off here and there. Look at how much trouble Chernobyl caused to surrounding nations when that atomic power plant went critical.

It would take merely a matter of weeks after the first hydrogen bomb laden missile is launched before the citizens of planet earth no longer had to worry about either global warming or an impending ice age. The Nuclear Winter will do to us what the comets did to the dinosaurs.

So, where does America have this supposed superiority over the rest of the world?

Or is the credo that we are the most powerful nation on earth a
piece of Madison Avenue propaganda to make Americans feel good about themselves?

Essentially, our war in Iraq is full of logos and advertising copy
and slogans designed to create illusions about who is really the
toughest dog on the planet.

Corporate war comes down to everyone agreeing that nobody blows up and completely shuts down the flow of oil to the world. Yeah, a few pipelines can be blown up to drive the price of oil up, but nobody wants to shut the flow down completely. If the flow is shut down completely, then there are no more bargaining chips for any side involved in the worldwide corporate wars.

Shutting down the oil flow completely is akin to dropping hydrogen
bombs on each other.
Everyone is ruined in the end, and no one is the most powerful in
the world anymore….bigbro